Thursday, March 21, 2013

Updated Re-Alignment Standings

Introduction
So I've realized that basically the way the standings work starting next season is that for the wild cards you must look to conference standings for the teams not sitting in the top 3 in their division, as such, I'm going to do the standings by showing the top 3 in each division (all of whom are in the playoffs) and then conference standings for the rest (the top two of whom would make the playoffs).

Changes from Last Time I Did This (3/10):
Winnipeg has climbed up and Phoenix has dropped out of the playoffs in the West. The top 3 in each Western Conference division have not changed but St Louis and Minnesota have flip-flopped places. In the East, Toronto has dropped from a top-3 division team to a Wild Card, but the top 8 remains the same.

Thoughts
It's nice to see that we would still have some good playoffs races going. Columbus would be exactly as far out – 2 points – in the new Eastern Conference as their surprising run has them in the current West.

It's fairly amazing that with Winnipeg and Detroit swapping conferences, we would have the exact same 16 teams making the playoffs if the season ended today!

Is it just me or is hilarious that after trading Nash to the Rangers, the BJs are only two points behind them in the standings and neither is a playoff team at the moment?